# The Marq: Agent-Direct Score B (81.5%) Site: https://www.themarqchicago.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/themarqchicago.com Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) The Marq is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open the website of The Marq. It can read what The Marq offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://www.toasttab.com/the-marq-60-w-adams-st (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.themarqchicago.com/menus - Phone: +1-312-600-4434 ## What to fix first - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+2 points) Missing: telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Marq > restaurant (burger, sandwich, american, salad) in West Adams Street 60 60603 Chicago, Chicago. Phone +1-312-600-4434. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://www.toasttab.com/the-marq-60-w-adams-st (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.themarqchicago.com/menus ## About - Website: https://www.themarqchicago.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours. - **Toast works with agents through its partners.** Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 311 of 1392 in Chicago. Top 22% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 98% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 19% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Danke (B, 35 m, https://directindex.org/r/dankechicago.com); Subway (A, 175 m, https://directindex.org/r/subway.com); Steadfast at the Gray (C, 200 m, https://directindex.org/r/steadfastchicago.com); Freshii (B, 291 m, https://directindex.org/r/freshii.com); Cousins Subs (B, 337 m, https://directindex.org/r/cousinssubs.com); Seedo’s (B, 370 m, https://directindex.org/r/seedosbakery.net); Delmonico Restaurant (D, 384 m, https://directindex.org/r/delmonicochicago.com); Arby's (F, 437 m, https://directindex.org/r/arbys.com); Jollibee (B, 441 m, https://directindex.org/r/jollibeefoods.com); The Gage (A, 473 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegagechicago.com). ## What assistants answer Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included. Against its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 65% (48% A or B, 7098 sites); Sites using Toast 74% (63% A or B, 1884 sites); This site 81.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/themarqchicago.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Marq in Chicago | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago | 1392 | 49% | 39% | 81.5% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Chicago | 192 | 78% | 75% | 81.5% | | Sites using Toast in Chicago | 198 | 76% | 63% | 81.5% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Toast in Chicago | 68 | 80% | 81% | 81.5% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Toast in Chicago: Galit (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/galitrestaurant.com); Sepia (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/sepiachicago.com); Bites (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/biteskitchen.com); Kie-Gol-Lanee Logan Square (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/kiegol.com); Munno Pizzeria & Bistro (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/munnochicago.com). With the two fixes above (Almost no text without JavaScript; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: 137th of 1,392 in Chicago, up from 311th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Marq, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/themarqchicago.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://www.toasttab.com/the-marq-60-w-adams-st (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested) - Menu: https://www.themarqchicago.com/menus (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +1-312-600-4434 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/themarqchicago.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/themarqchicago.com/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): not measured - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured - MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no - Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): not measured - Vendor terms for agents, Toast: Through partners. Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/ Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 23 | 25 | | Readable | 20 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/themarqchicago.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/themarqchicago.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/themarqchicago.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=themarqchicago.com&force=1